Kirazlık Dam

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Kirazlık Dam
Kirazlık Dam is located in Turkey
Kirazlık Dam
Location of Kirazlık Dam in Turkey
Official name Kirazlık Regulator and Hydroelectric Power Plant
Country Turkey
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Purpose Regulation, power
Status Operational
Construction began 2009
Opening date 2011
Dam and spillways
Impounds Botan River
Height 60 m (197 ft)[1]
Spillway type Gate-controlled
Power station
Commission date 2013
Type Run-of-the-river[2]
Turbines 3 x 15 MW Kaplan-type
Installed capacity 45 MW
Annual generation 165 million kWh

The Kirazlık Dam is a gravity dam on the Botan River, 9 km (6 mi) east of Siirt in Siirt Province of southeastern Turkey. The purpose of the dam is to regulate the outflow of the Alkumru Dam upstream and to produce hydroelectric power with a run-of-the-river design. The dam was completed in late 2011 and the power station become operational in 2013. The power plant houses three 15 MW Kaplan turbine-generators.[3][4][5]

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